New Tales Of The Great Wall
Ho Lun Keung, Group 1: Fiction, Ying Wa Primary School
ong long time ago, there was an ethnic living in a village. They were herdsmen. They cultivated cows,
sheep, ducks, geese, chickens and fish. They also had a wide range of farms that planted rice and
different kinds of vegetables. They lived in peace and happy in the village.
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One day, there were a group of people walked to this village. They all got hurt and seemed that
were very hungry, thirsty and tired. When these people found that there was a village and many
people there. They all felt relief and fell down on the ground. The herdsmen saved these people and gave them
food and water.
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When the people settled down, they all started to cry. One of them seemed to be the father of this family
said “There is a monster. The monster burns out our village, kills our people and eats our food.” The herdsmen
were very afraid.
“
What kind of monster? What does it look like?” said one of the herdsmen.
“
The monster is enormous; it has a big mouth and can blow out fire. It has strong arms; they can pull down
the trees and our house. They can grab food and put into its big mouth. It had many horns on its head. It had four
eyes in four directions, such that it can see all things around it. We are the only family that can stay alive.” The
father said and cried.
The herdsmen started to think about how to protect themselves because this build something high, big and
strong such that the monster could not come through into their village. Then they started to gather stones and
made them flat and used something like clay to stick the stones together. A wall was built up. But they thought
that they needed to build this wall to surround them and they needed to be hurry.
Two years later, the wall was almost completed. One night, the monster came, it blew fire to burn the wall
and it punched the wall with its horns to try to destroy the wall, but it failed. The wall was strong enough to
defend the monster. Finally, the monster went away. All the herdsmen were very happy. This news was spread
to all other herdsmen over the country. All other herdsmen built the same kind of walls. Many walls were built
up on the mountains and like a border surrounding the country.
Year after year, all the walls were connected together. Also, they built the staircase on the wall. People
climbed up the staircase and acted as guards to see if the monster will come back. During these years, the
monster came a few times but it still could not go through the wall to hurt the people. Finally, the monster
starved to dead. The people were very happy, they did not fear the monster anymore. They all said that this wall
was great. Posterity of people in the country called it “Great Wall”.
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